Brooklyn, NY – 32,000 Cyclist Take To The Streets Of NYC

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    Brooklyn, NY – Tens of thousands of bicyclists are off to the races for the TD Five Boro Bike Tour.

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    The race kicked off at 7:45 a.m. at Battery Park in Lower Manhattan, where the race will also end. In all, organizers expect 32,000 riders to take on the course through all five boroughs. It is the biggest bike ride in the U.S.

    Organizers say backpacks where prohibited.

    The rule comes after the Boston Marathon bombing where explosives were concealed in backpacks.

    Police say officers on bikes and scooters are riding with the tour. Mobile cameras, radiation detectors and counterterrorism teams where deployed.

    The TD Five Boro Bike Tour is a 40-mile annual ride.

    Sections of the FDR Drive, the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge are affected. Road closures will be in effect until 6:30 p.m.

    The annual 5 Boro Bike Tour has been going on since 1977.


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    10 years ago

    In 1969, I took my bicycle from Westminster Road and Avenue H, to downtown Brooklyn, over the Brooklyn Bridge, into Manhattan, up Second or Third Avenue, to the Triboro Bridge, into Queens, east across Queens, and made it to the area near JFK Airport. I came home via the bike path on the Belt Parkway to PA. Avenue, through Canarsie, and into Flatbush. The trip was about 42 miles, and took five and a half hours (3 boroughs). Previously, I had biked through Staten Island. Needless to say, I’ve never gone on a bike trip that long again. Would I do it today? Definitely with a group, but no solo as I did forty four years ago!

    10 years ago

    Bike races, marathons etc are all very nice, but I had to go to NJ this morning for a business meeting. I checked online EVERYWHERE last night & couldn’t find a list of road closures. 311 was useless, as always.

    I waited for an hour on Canal Street, could not get into the tunnel, the cops couldn’t tell me which streets were closed & in the end, the only cop with any clue advised me to turn around & go home. So I did.

    Why aren’t these road closures publicized? I could have got to my meeting had I known which route to take.

    RebKlemson
    RebKlemson
    10 years ago

    oyyyy mamish a tircha d’tzibbura! how can yidden travel around and get to a minyan with all these road closures? walking is too difficult

    Geulah
    Geulah
    10 years ago

    Sorry I missed it, again. Manage to not make the deadline cutoff.

    #1, yes you can do it again and again.
    #2, they are publicized and I would let both DOT and Transportation Alternatives know that you were stymied, no excuses. The Bike NY website had the route and the closures.
    #3. Walking is too difficult, what do you do on Shabbos and Yom Tov, bus or taxi to shul?

    shimonyehuda
    shimonyehuda
    10 years ago

    before he retires as mayor(hopefully tomorrow) the mayor intends to ban all cars and walking because that is what he wants